Hundreds turned out Tuesday morning in Canton, Massachusetts to attend the funeral of Brendan Burke, the 21 year old, who was killed in a car accident Friday in Indiana, along with his passenger, 18 year old Mike A. Reedy. Burke, the son of Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian, came out publically in November, 2009, and had aspirations to change from the inside out, the culture of homophobia prevalent in hockey. Father James McCune told the mourners at St. John the Evangelist Church that “we are plunged into darkness. Nothing can prepare us for the death of a much-loved and widely admired young person. And Brendan Burke was certainly both.” McCune added that “Brendan’s public admission of his sexual orientation is widely credited with nudging hockey forward in overcoming its sometimes homophobic culture.”
Thankfully, a New Hampshire House committee recommended against repealing the state’s five week old gay marriage law. The Judiciary Committee Tuesday also voted to recommend that the House deny a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage in the state as that only existing between a man and a woman.
Is Sheldon, the character played to perfection by Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory, gay? Series creator Chuck Lorre will not say, exactly, nor will Parsons. A better question: when is Jim Parsons coming out already?
The Winter Olympics interest me not. The costs, the faked nationalism, the curling; it all adds to nothing short of nothing at all. Nonetheless, according to reports these games – the Vancouver Olympic Games – may well be the gayest Games ever.
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